"bearophile" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Nick Sabalausky: >> That never once happened to me on my "slow" Apple 2.< > > See here too :-) > http://hubpages.com/hub/_86_Mac_Plus_Vs_07_AMD_DualCore_You_Wont_Believe_Who_Wins >
Excellent article :) > Yet, what I have written is often true :-) > Binary data can't be compressed as well as textual data, Doesn't really matter, since binary data (assuming a format that isn't over-engineered) is already smaller than the same data in text form. Text compresses well *because* it contains so much more excess redundant data than binary data does. I could stick 10GB of zeros to the end of a 1MB binary file and suddenly it would compress far better than any typical text file. > and lzop is I/O bound in most situations: > http://www.lzop.org/ > I'm not really sure why you're bringing up compression...? Do you mean that the actual disk access time of a text format can be brought down to the time of an equivalent binary format by storing the text file in a compressed form?
